Music for a while shall all your cares beguile

…an 18th century-style double-keyboard French harpsichord of the sort for which most Baroque keyboard music was written…

“Music for a while shall all your cares beguile” (from “Oedipus”) is one of my favorite songs of Henry Purcell, widely considered the greatest of English composers. Music has always been an important part of my life, and these are a few of my favorite songs and piano pieces.

Buachaill an Chuil Dualaigh (Youth of the Ringlets)
Danny Boy
Down by the Sally Gardens (text by William Butler Yeats)=
Eamon An Chnuic
Eibhlin a Riun (Eileen Aroon)
Erin Go Bragh
Fainne Gael an Lae (The Dawning of the Day)
The Foggy Dew
The Foggy Dew (Easter Rebellion Song)
In the Bleak Midwinter
The Lakes of Shallin
The Last Rose of Summer (text by Thomas Moore)
The Minstrel Boy (The Moreen)
My Love’s an Arbutus (Coola Shore)
Pearla an Brhrollaigh Bhain (The Snowy Breasted Pearl)
The Water Is Wide (Waly, Waly)
The Wearing of the Green